Life can be messy and regularly comes with pop-up challenges or brush fires. These canbe as simple as spilling your coffee on your work papers to being notified your husbandor wife has just been arrested for a DUI. Sometimes we are bombarded and have manyunmanaged brush fires all around. We need time to step back... Continue Reading →
7 Principles for Biblical Perseverance
[These are some of the notes from my recent message at the 2025 Florida Regional Grace Conference. -Joel] Eph 6:18. “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.” This is the one and only time Paul mentions perseverance. Paul never really defines... Continue Reading →
Power to Overcome
Our Father is the Most High God; He is Wisdom, and so much more. (Prov. 8:12) We can step out from under fear and anything this world has to offer that creates anxiety or distress to be a servant. Recall who we have residing within us. So, what is there to fear? “What shall we... Continue Reading →
What is God’s Strength Made Perfect?
When the Lord told Paul, “for my strength is made perfect in weakness” (2 Cor. 12:9), what did He mean by my strength? What is God’s strength made perfect in our weaknesses? We all know the context very well. Paul was dealing with, what I personally suspect was, a demon or a demon-possessed person verbally... Continue Reading →
Faith Strength Courage
Throughout Bible history, God always called upon His people to be strong, be of good courage, and have no fear. The Jews, when they reached the promised land saw the giants and after all the miracles God performed to free them, they refused to trust in God, and they all demanded to go back to... Continue Reading →
The Secret Place
Psa. 91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Is this not a fascinating verse? "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." That's amazing! Does this verse remind you of anything... Continue Reading →
Self-Esteem And Esteeming Others In Godliness
Rom 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. Today, there is a saying; ‘you can’t learn to... Continue Reading →
Arise Without Fear
A timeless principle, throughout all ages, throughout all dispensations, is that God has always called upon His people to be strong, to be of good courage, and to have no fear. You might remember when the Jews were miraculously delivered from the tyranny of Pharaoh with the crazy plagues and the amazing parting of the... Continue Reading →
